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Re:Argonne researchers posit way to locally circumvent Secon... by ThePhysicist on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @02:46PM (#12848961)
Yes absolutely! Life is actually a way to increase entropy as it harnesses chemical energy in systems that otherwise wouldn't be able to reach a lower energy state by themselves.
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Re:Argonne researchers posit way to locally circumvent Secon... by ddalex on Thursday November 03, 2016 @05:14AM (#12862491)
Isn't it the other way around? Life decreases local entropy?
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Re:Argonne researchers posit way to locally circumvent Secon... by ThePhysicist on Thursday November 03, 2016 @12:24PM (#12865360)
Yes but globally entropy increases faster than would be possible without life :)
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